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The dynamic formulation of optimal transport has attracted growing interests in scientific computing and machine learning, and its computation requires to solve a PDE-constrained optimization problem. The classical Eulerian discretization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Wei Wan , Yuejin Zhang , Chenglong Bao , Bin Dong , Zuoqiang Shi

For dynamical systems evolving on a manifold and admitting first integrals, standard one-step numerical methods generally cause the discrete trajectory to drift off the manifold and the numerical values of the first integrals to deviate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Juho Bae , Dong Eui Chang

We present an algorithm for solving stochastic heat equations, whose key ingredient is a non-uniform time discretization of the driving Brownian motion $W$. For this algorithm we derive an error bound in terms of its number of evaluations…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thoms Mueller-Gronbach , Klaus Ritter

We consider the problem of forecasting complex, nonlinear space-time processes when observations provide only partial information of on the system's state. We propose a natural data-driven framework, where the system's dynamics are modelled…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Ibrahim Ayed , Emmanuel de Bézenac , Arthur Pajot , Julien Brajard , Patrick Gallinari

This paper studies the problem of steering the distribution of a discrete-time dynamical system from an initial distribution to a target distribution in finite time. The formulation is fully nonlinear, allowing the use of general control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-05 George Rapakoulias , Panagiotis Tsiotras

A posteriori estimates for mixed finite element discretizations of the Navier-Stokes equations are derived. We show that the task of estimating the error in the evolutionary Navier-Stokes equations can be reduced to the estimation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-23 Javier de Frutos , Bosco García-Archilla , Julia Novo

In this report it is shown that the implicit Euler time-discretization of some classes of switching systems with sliding modes, yields a very good stabilization of the trajectory and of its derivative on the sliding surface. Therefore the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-04-13 Vincent Acary , Bernard Brogliato

While many methods exist to discretize nonlinear time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs), the rigorous estimation and adaptive control of their discretization errors remains challenging. In this paper, we present a methodology…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Xunxun Wu , Kristoffer van der Zee , Gorkem Simsek , Harald Van Brummelen

This is the second part of study on the optimal convergence rate of the explicit Euler discretization in time for the convection-diffusion equations [Appl. Math. Lett. \textbf{131} (2022) 108048] which focuses on high-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Qifeng Zhang , Jiyuan Zhang , Zhi-zhong Sun

We introduce a new sequential subspace optimization method for large-scale saddle-point problems. It solves iteratively a sequence of auxiliary saddle-point problems in low-dimensional subspaces, spanned by directions derived from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Yoni Choukroun , Michael Zibulevsky , Pavel Kisilev

We introduce a variational time discretization for the multi-dimensional gas dynamics equations, in the spirit of minimizing movements for curves of maximal slope. Each timestep requires the minimization of a functional measuring the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-01 Fabio Cavalletti , Marc Sedjro , Michael Westdickenberg

In this paper, we consider local and uniform invariance preserving steplength thresholds on a set when a discretization method is applied to a linear or nonlinear dynamical system. For the forward or backward Euler method, the existence of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-07-06 Zoltán Horváth , Yunfei Song , Tamás Terlaky

The issue of single-grid discretization error estimator, operating in the postprocessor mode, is addressed in the paper. An ensemble of numerical solutions, obtained using solvers of different accuracy, is shown to provide an upper estimate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-11 A. K. Alekseev , A. E. Bondarev , I. M. Navon

We study a fixed step-size noisy distributed gradient descent algorithm for solving optimization problems in which the objective is a finite sum of smooth but possibly non-convex functions. Random perturbations are introduced to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Lei Qin , Michael Cantoni , Ye Pu

The derivation of second-order ordinary differential equations (ODEs) as continuous-time limits of optimization algorithms has been shown to be an effective tool for the analysis of these algorithms. Additionally, discretizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-29 Rachel Walker , Emily Zhang

In the present work, we delve into further study of numerical approximations of SDEs with non-globally monotone coefficients. We design and analyze a new family of stopped increment-tamed time discretization schemes of Euler, Milstein and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Lei Dai , Xiaojie Wang

Recent work has shown that stochastically perturbed gradient methods can efficiently escape strict saddle points of smooth functions. We extend this body of work to nonsmooth optimization, by analyzing an inexact analogue of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Damek Davis , Mateo Díaz , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy

This paper aims to investigate the asymptotic error distribution of several numerical methods for stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with multiplicative noise. Firstly, we give the limit distribution of the normalized error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Jialin Hong , Diancong Jin , Xu Wang

Stochastic dynamical systems are fundamental in state estimation, system identification and control. System models are often provided in continuous time, while a major part of the applied theory is developed for discrete-time systems.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-02-07 Niklas Wahlström , Patrix Axelsson , Fredrik Gustafsson

In this work we consider the two dimensional instationary Navier-Stokes equations with homogeneous Dirichlet/no-slip boundary conditions. We show error estimates for the fully discrete problem, where a discontinuous Galerkin method in time…

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